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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, HEST Fix the unsuitable usage of platform_data.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:18:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282018698.2744.1508.camel@yhuang-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C69FB32.4000802@np.css.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:00 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> > Why not use platform_device_add_data?
> Here what should be done is to transport the pointer of hest_hdr to platform_data,
> so I think that it could be done successfully by allocating 8byte of memory.
> If the platform_device_add_data() is used, the more memory will be allocated. 
> 
> So I think this method is better than using platform_device_add_data().

You can specify allocation size for platform_device_add_data(), so no
more memory will be allocated.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17  0:58 [PATCH 4/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, HEST Fix the unsuitable usage of platform_data Jin Dongming
2010-08-17  1:39 ` Huang Ying
2010-08-17  3:00   ` Jin Dongming
2010-08-17  4:18     ` Huang Ying [this message]
2010-08-17  9:18       ` Jin Dongming

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